US5489023A - Shipping and dispensing carton for stacked collapsible spreaders - Google Patents
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- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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- This invention relates to packaging materials for lawn and garden implements, particularly self-supporting collapsible spreaders.
- Garden care implements such as wheeled spreaders and the like are normally packaged individually in one-item cartons at the factory and shipped from there to a sales terminus or retail outlet where usually one or two items are removed from their separate cartons and displayed for sale.
- a sales terminus or retail outlet where usually one or two items are removed from their separate cartons and displayed for sale.
- the purchaser is usually given a new packaged item from a storage area within the store.
- a feature of the present invention is the provision of a shipping and dispensing carton for a stacked array of portable wheeled spreaders in which a portion of the carton can be removed once the carton has arrived on the sales floor, leaving the stacked array of portable wheeled spreaders visible to the shopper, including whatever indicia and logos are arranged on the spreader hopper.
- Still another feature of the present invention is to provide a single shipping and display carton for a stacked array of portable wheeled spreaders that can be manipulated by a single worker.
- a two-part shipping and display carton for use with a stacked array of portable wheeled spreaders, each spreader having a hopper, a pair of wheels disposed below the hopper, a lower frame supporting the hopper, and an upper frame pivoted to the lower frame and being pivoted into a collapsed state so that the upper frame lies generally adjacent the lower frame.
- a bottom portion of the carton receives the stacked array of spreaders, while a top portion of the carton having a similar cross-sectional shape as the bottom portion and a height that is slightly higher than the height of the stacked array of spreaders fits within the bottom portion so that the outside surfaces of its walls contact the inside surfaces of the walls of the bottom portion when the top portion is lowered into the bottom portion.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a stacked array of portable wheeled spreaders arranged to fit in the lower portion a carton according to the invention
- FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective of the complete carton according to the invention without the stacked array of portable wheeled spreaders positioned therein; and device according to the invention;
- FIG. 3 is a schematic front elevational view of the carton according to the invention in which the top and bottom are shown about to be fitted one within the other;
- FIG. 4 is a schematic partial cross-section of one of the spreaders shown in FIG. 1 fitted with an insert for enhancing the stacking of the spreaders.
- each spreader 10 comprises a hopper 12 a pair of wheels 14 connected by an axle 16 and further that each spreader carries a lower and upper frame 18, 20 respectively which are pivotally connected by means of fasteners 22.
- An upright support frame 15 is shown extending from the underside of the hopper 12. As shown, each of the spreaders 10 are in the collapsed or storage state because the upper frame 20 is swung down into its collapsed position with respect to the rest of the spreader.
- the spreaders 10 can be nested one with the other, so that the wheels of one spreader rest inside the hopper of the underlying spreader and thus make for an economically spaced stacked array.
- the upper frame 20 is shown suspended by the lower frame so that it lies generally adjacent the lower frame and its associated hopper and extends in an overlapping manner beyond the articulated or pivoted portion of the lower and upper frames of the underlying spreader.
- Three stacked spreaders are shown, but it is within the scope of the present invention to have more, such as four or even five stacked spreaders, although it has been found that three or four spreaders can be accommodated in a carton that can be handled by a single worker.
- the stacked array of spreaders is then fitted into the bottom 24 of a carton 26 (see FIG. 3).
- the bottom portion 24 of the carton 26 is designed to enhance the sales display of the contained spreaders, thus a back wall 30 faces the back of the stacked spreaders; sidewalls 32 slope downwardly towards the front and allow the eye to encompass the front portion of the spreaders, specifically the hopper portions; and the cut-out 36 in the front wall 38 allows the eye to read whatever logo is arranged on the front wall of the bottommost hopper.
- the logos on the uppermost spreaders will be visible as well, owing to the low sidewalls of the carton 24 with respect to the significantly higher array of stacked spreaders, three or four, for example.
- FIG. 2 shows the complete carton 26 with its lower bottom portion 24 and an upper top portion 38.
- the stacked array of spreaders that would normally occupy the bottom portion 24 are not shown. It is important to stress here that the top portion when in place provides a shipping package for the spreaders contained therein (see FIG. 3).
- the topmost portion 38 of the carton 26 fit within the inside surfaces of the walls of the bottom most portion 24. In this way when the filled carton arrives at the sales floor all that needs to be done is to sever whatever tape holds the two portions 24, 38 together, then lift the top portion out from the bottom portion, thus leaving the stacked array of spreaders therein visible and available for their separate removal by the potential purchaser.
- gripping holes 40 are provided in the sidewalls of the top portion 38.
- FIG. 4 a generally triangular-shaped insert 42 of suitable stiffness such as cardboard is shown inserted in the crook or space between the back of the hopper 12 and the ends of the lower frame 20 to which the upper frame 18 is pivoted.
- the insert 42 may be provided with flap members 44 for straddling the legs of the lower frame for added support.
- the top surface of the insert provides a flat surface for supporting the upright support frame 15 of the overlying spreader and thereby helps to maintain the superimposed spreader in a level position, that is, so that the hopper itself is seen to be in its operative and level position.
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